Mishal Husain Biography
Mishal Husain is a British journalist and newsreader for BBC Television and BBC Radio. She is the main presenter of BBC News at Ten and BBC Weekend News on Sundays, as well as one of the main presenters of BBC Radio 4’s Today. She has appeared as a guest on The Andrew Marr Show, HARDtalk, Impact, and BBC Breakfast. Husain also works as a fill-in presenter for BBC News at Six.
Mishal Husain Age
Husain is 49 years old as of 2022. She was born on 11 February 1973 in Northampton, United Kingdom.
Mishal Husain Height
Husain stands at a height of 5 feet 4 inches.
Mishal Husain Parents – Family
Husain was born in Pakistan to Pakistani parents. Her mother was a teacher and former Pakistan Television Corporation producer, and her father was a urologist. She is the granddaughter of Pakistan’s first Director-General of Inter-Services Intelligence, Syed Shahid Hamid.
Mishal Husain Husband
In July 2003, Husain married Meekal Hashmi. The couple lives in Camden, north London, with their three sons.
Mishal Husain Education
Husain attended the British School in Abu Dhabi, and the family lived in Saudi Arabia for a time. Husain moved back to England when she was 12 years old to continue her education at Cobham Hall School, an independent school in Kent. She studied law at New Hall, Cambridge, and then went on to earn a master’s degree in International and Comparative Law at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.
Mishal Husain Skills
Husain has published a book titled The Skills. It’s not a how-to-be-me book because it recognizes her unusual career, and there aren’t many openings presenting the Today show. Rather, it functions as a manual-cum-memoir, with macro elements quoting numerous psychosocial sources about work and how to thrive in it, primarily as a woman, but also as a person.
Since she started writing The Skills in 2016, a few events have occurred that have completely altered the context of the book and rather perplexed the plucky self-reliance-for-a-rigged-system philosophy. It’s both enlightening and difficult, like going through a stranger’s cutlery drawer and realizing how neat other people are. Successful people plan and prepare; they teach their children not to be afraid of the word “aspiration”; they build resilience and overcome anxiety. In theory, it sounds a little swotty, but in practice, it’s quite inspiring.
Mishal Husain Net Worth
Husain has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
Mishal Husain Salary
Husain earns an annual salary of £265,000-269,999.
Mishal Husain Career
Husain began her career in journalism at the age of 18 when she worked as a city reporter for the English-language newspaper The News in Islamabad, Pakistan. Then, while at university, she did several work placements at the BBC. Her first job was as a producer and occasional presenter at Bloomberg Television in London, where she worked since 1996. She joined the BBC two years later, in 1998, as a junior producer in the newsroom and for the News 24 channel, and then in the Economics and Business Unit.
She moved in front of the camera within a few months and has since worked in a variety of roles, including the daily Breakfast program, Asia Business Report, and as a business news presenter on both BBC World News and the BBC News Channel. She was the corporation’s Washington correspondent beginning in September 2002, serving as the main news anchor during the buildup to the invasion of Iraq and throughout the war. She has conducted interviews with a number of high-profile figures, including Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, Paul Kagame, and Emmerson Mnangagwa.
She published an autobiographical essay in The Independent on May 8, 2010, based on a nostalgia trip to the UAE. Husain hosted Impact on BBC World News in 2011, but in the spring and summer of that year, she was working on a documentary about the Arab Spring that would air in the autumn of that year. She hosts the BBC Weekend News on BBC One on Sunday evenings. Husain was announced as a member of the BBC’s Olympic Presenting team on December 2, 2011.
She hosted the final News at Ten broadcasts from BBC Television Centre on March 17, 2013. On July 16, 2013, BBC Director-General Lord Hall announced that Husain would begin hosting BBC Radio 4’s Today program in the autumn. She is still the main presenter of the Sunday evening editions of BBC News at Ten on BBC One, as well as on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel on occasion.
Husain co-hosted her first episode of Today on October 7, 2013, with John Humphrys. Husain was announced as a member of the BBC’s Commonwealth Games Presenting team on November 7, 2013. Husain also works as a relief presenter for BBC News at Six and as the main Sunday presenter for BBC News at Ten. She has presented Newsnight on BBC Two on occasion. Husain was named Broadcaster of the Year at the 2015 London Press Club Awards.
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